How Trash Computers Built Ced's Home Lab

How Trash Computers Built Ced's Home Lab (Part 2)

Missed Part 1? Start here: From Football to Kubernetes: How I Reinvented Myself Through Technology If you read Part 1, you know football was my first identity. Technology definitely wasn’t. At least not on the surface. But if I’m being honest, the nerd side of me had always been there. It just took me a while to fully let it out. And believe it or not Ced’s Home Lab didn’t start with expensive servers, enterprise gear, or fancy cloud infrastructure. It started with trash. No seriously. Literal trash. ...

May 27, 2026 · 5 min · Chase Dumphord

The Lab Report

Infrastructure engineering from the trenches, one homelab build at a time.